The Vitamin Parade

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The Vitamin Parade!

• Water soluble and Fat soluble vitamins,
• all here are in the queue
• to meet you and introduce themselves!

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Each vitamin will individually give a brief
introduction of themselves, in no time at all
youll know them all!

• Warning.......
• Some vitamins are very giddy and will pretend
  they are someone else.. You must decide in each
  case whether the introduction is genuine or if
  they are fooling you.....
• And respond appropriately!

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Your Job!
Meet them , greet them and on to the next vitamin
as below!

• Click Pleased to meet you if the introduction
  is genuine
  
• Click Dont fool me! if the description fits
  another vitamin

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Hi, Im Carotene, pro-Vitamin A and I get
converted into the real Vitamin A - Retinol in
the gut!

• If you are attracted to bright strong coloured
  fruit and vegetables, then Im a regular in your
  diet
  
• Im a Moisturising vitamin saving your skin
  and membranes from dryness
  
• Ud miss my company at night time because without
  me (I manufacture Rhodopsin) things will be quite
  dim!

Respond Pleased to meet you Dont fool me!
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Well done!
Meet a new vitamin
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Hi, Im Ergocalciferol Vitamin B, and I am
synthetic!

• You might know my other half Cholecalciferol as
  the Sunshine vitamin!
  
• We help calcium and keep those bones, those
  bones in ship shape!
  
• Stick with me and rickets, osteoporosis or
  osteomalacia wont get you

Respond Pleased to meet you Dont fool me!
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Well done!
Ergocalciferol is Vitamin D not vitamin B
Meet a new vitamin
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Tocopherol here! You probably know me as Vitamin
E...

• You wont suffer any major disease without me, or
  so they say, but believe me, better to have me
  
• I am a powerful anti- oxidant and commercially
  Im in demand
  
• Minding your ticker
• get to know me better!

Respond Pleased to meet you Dont fool me!
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Well done!
Meet a new vitamin
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Hi, Im one of the Quinones - Vitamin K

• Sometimes Im known as The Coagulation Vitamin
• I am a component of prothrombin, so you are aware
  of my job in clotting
  
• Always on call to reduce any haemorrhage or bleed
  
  

Respond Pleased to meet you Dont fool me!
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Well done!
Meet a new vitamin
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Hi, meet Thiamine from the B Complex group.......

• T for Thiamine, T for tiredness, thats how
  ud feel without me
  
• I am so often put through the mill and 70 of
  me disappears, my remains sometimes end in fancy
  cereal boxes
  
• Anyway, good for your appetite, good for your
  health, no nerves, just eat up

Respond Pleased to meet you Dont fool me!
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Well done!
Meet a new vitamin
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Riboflavin, Vitamin B6 another of the B Complex

• AH Tissue! Im in the Tissue Management business
  - Tissue Repair, keeping inflammation at bay, and
  preventing those fine cracks ud wouldnt want to
  have in your skin
• Metabolism is my other business and Im involved
  with each of the Macronutrients
  
• My sensitive side, I am light sensitive so buy
  your milk in cartons rather than bottles
  

Respond Pleased to meet you Dont fool me!
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Well done!
Riboflavin as described but Riboflavin
is vitamin B2 not B6
Meet a new vitamin
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Niacin here, also known as nicotinic acid

• The more protein you take in your diet, the more
  of me you should be having
  
• I am involved in releasing the energy from the
  food you eat
  
• I prevent pellagra which had caused many deaths
  in maize eating countries
  
• A symptom of pellagra a sore swollen tongue - not
  something ud wish for
  

Respond Pleased to meet you Dont fool me!
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Well done!
Riboflavin as described but Riboflavin
is vitamin B2 not B6
Meet a new vitamin
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Folic acid - B12

• Planning to get pregnant, Ill be right in there
  minimising the risk of any neural defect - such a
  simple way of preventing Spina Bifida
  
• Im so important I am popular in supplement form
  as well as natural resources
  
• Needed too for DNA and RNA synthesis

Respond Pleased to meet you Dont fool me!
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Well done!
You met Folic acid, but Folic acid is not B12,
Folic acid is just Folic acid!
Meet a new vitamin
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CyanoCobalamin- B12

• If you are a vegan you probably already know
  about me, I play hard to get with you lot!
  
• There is no B12 in any plant food
• You can watch out for fortified vegetarian
  products, but dont run the risk of anaemia
  
• While other factors cause pernicious anaemia, Im
  one of the few that can cure it
  

Respond Pleased to meet you Dont fool me!
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Well done!
Meet a new vitamin
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Vitamin C - Ascorbic Acid

• I might be the least stable of all the vitamins
  but I think I am one of the most popular!
  
• I proved a great find for the limeys years ago
  and scurvy disappeared
  
• I am Irons best friend
• I am critical to the immune system, will fight
  that flue or infection and I do a lot of work
  with collagen - busy?
  

Respond Pleased to meet you Dont fool me!
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Well done!And Goodbye
Hope you enjoyed the Vitamin Parade and that you
will get you know each vitamin very well soon!
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